Robust Boundary Vibration Control of Uncertain Flexible Robot Manipulator with Spatiotemporally-varying Disturbance and Boundary Disturbance

Abstract

In this paper the vibration control problem is addressed for the Euler-Bernoulli beam with system parameters uncertainties, spatiotemporally-varying disturbance, and boundary disturbance. By using global sliding-mode boundary control (GSMBC) through method of lines (MOL), a robust boundary control design is suggested to diminish the perturbations of uncertain Euler-Bernoulli beam and to compensate the influence of the spatiotemporally-varying disturbance and boundary disturbance. Dynamics of the Euler-Bernoulli beam are described by non-homogenous hyperbolic partial differential equation (PDE) and ordinary differential equations (ODEs). MOL is employed to acquire the beam dynamics represented by ODE system in lieu of PDE system, therefore a precise solution is obtained by solving the resulting ODE system. Then, GSMBC is established for mitigating the vibrations of the beam affected by system parameters uncertainties, spatiotemporally-varying disturbance, and boundary disturbance. Chattering phenomena is avoided by using exponential reaching law supported by a relay function. Exponential convergence and stability robustness of the closed-loop system are assured by Lyapunov direct approach. In the end, simulation outcomes show that the GSMBC-based MOL scheme is valid for vanishing the vibrations of the uncertain Euler-Bernoulli beam efficiently.